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From: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I limit display to headers?
Summary: rn has an = options
Keywords: rn header news -i
Message-ID: <630@targon.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 17:47:05 GMT
References: <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <9554@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis)
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
Organization: Nixdorf Computer BV., DO, P.O. Box 29,Vianen, The Netherlands
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In article <3917@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> (leonard.oppenheimer,hr,) writes:
> [...]
>When using rn, I would like to be able to display the header only, and then
>hit <space> if I want to read the article.  The way it is now, I always get
>the whole first page, which is a pain on this machine as it is very slow.

When you press the "=" key at article or newsgroup level you will
get the Subject lines of the articles in that newsgroup.  This comes
close to what you want.  It is possible to change the output format
used with "=" .  But then you have to "RTFM"  :-)
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